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Monolith Soft

Monolith Soft (株式会社モノリスソフト Kabushiki-gaisha Monorisu Sofuto?) is a video game development company who are responsible for the Project X Zone series. The company was formed in 1999 by Tetsuya Takashi, the creative director responsible for the Xeno franchise (Xenogears, Xenosaga and Xenoblade Chronicles). The company was made up of former Square staff who worked on Xenogears within Square which released a year prior (which was later absorbed into Enix to form Square Enix).

Monolith Soft was funded and subsidized into Namco (now Bandai Namco Entertainment) as a video game development subsidiary for the company. This partnership resulted in the Xenosaga series and Namco x Capcom (the predecessor of Project X Zone). Namco traded its shares of Monolith Soft to Nintendo resulting in Monolith Soft being a video game development subsidiary for Nintendo. This reformed corporal partnership resulted in the critically acclaimed Xenoblade Chronicles franchise and the start of the Project X Zone series.

Because Monolith Soft are the developers of the Project X Zone series, all the original characters and story elements are created by them. Despite this, Bandai Namco Holdings have ownership rights of Project X Zone as the franchise started as Namco x Capcom without Nintendo’s affiliation.

Games[]

Lead Development[]

  • Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht - 2002 (PS2)
  • Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean - 2003 (GC)
  • Xenosaga Freaks - 2004 (PS2)
  • Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse - 2004 (PS2)
  • Xenosaga: Pied Piper - 2004 (Mobile)
  • Namco x Capcom - 2005 (PS2)
  • Baten Kaitos Origins - 2006 (GC)
  • Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra - 2006 (PS2)
  • Soma Bringer - 2008 (DS)
  • Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier - 2008 (DS)
  • Disaster: Day of Crisis - 2008 (Wii)
  • Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans - 2009 (DS)
  • Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier EXCEED - 2010 (DS)
  • Xenoblade Chronicles - 2010 (Wii)
  • Project X Zone - 2012 (3DS)
  • Xenoblade Chronicles X - 2015 (Wii U)
  • Project X Zone 2 - 2015 (3DS)
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - 2017 (Switch)
    • Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna - The Golden Country - 2018 (Switch)
  • Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - 2020 (Switch)
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - 2022 (Switch)
    • Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed - 2023 (Switch)

Support Development[]

  • Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII - 2006 (PS2)
  • Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 2008 (Wii)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword - 2011 (Wii)
  • Animal Crossing: New Leaf - 2012 (3DS)
  • Pikmin 3 - 2013 (Wii U)
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds - 2013 (3DS)
  • Splatoon - 2015 (Wii U)
  • Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer - 2015 (3DS)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 2017 (Wii U/Switch)
  • Splatoon 2 - 2017 (Switch)
  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 2020 (Switch)
  • Splatoon 3 - 2022 (Switch)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - 2023 (Switch)

Namco x Capcom[]

Super Robot Taisen OG Saga[]

Project X Zone[]

Bandai Namco characters created by Monolith Soft[]

Nintendo characters created by Monolith Soft[]

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